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Solar Flare Radiation Dangers: Are We Ready?

It is a violent environment out there for our Earth, and all that impacts the fragile Earth affects us. As long as the Earth has existed, solar flares have been sending doses of radiation to the planet’s surface. “A worst-c [...]

Posted On : Jan, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Eta Carinae's X-ray flares -Free Public Astronomy Lecture

Eta Carinae is one of the most exotic objects in our galaxy: a very massive, extremely unstable star, possibly on the verge of going supernova. The large star in eta Car is in a highly elliptical orbit (P = 5.54 yrs, e = 0.9) with a smal [...]

Posted On : Feb, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Super Solar Flares Stun the Solar System

At 11:18 AM on the cloudless morning of Thursday, September 1, 1859, 33-year-old Richard Carrington widely acknowledged to be one of England's foremost solar astronomers was in his well-appointed private observatory. Just as usual on every [...]

Posted On : May, 08 2008 | Comments : 0

Flares From Sun's Far Side May Affect Space Weather Of Inner...

Observations of solar flares by space craft at Mars, Venus and the Earth, show that eruptions on the far side of the Sun may affect our “Space Weather” back on earth. In December 2006, a series of solar flares produced in [...]

Posted On : Dec, 26 2007 | Comments : 0

Strong solar flares could render some GPS receivers temporar...

Scientists have discovered that powerful solar flares can cause some GPS receivers to fail—including the kind used by airplanes to navigate. Cornell engineer Paul Kintner says it’s lucky they found the problem now, when the su [...]

Posted On : Aug, 17 2007 | Comments : 0

Solar Flares

Solar Flares: The most [...]